Entering late autumn, the temperature begins to continue to drop and the daylight hours are also decreasing day by day. Almost all the trees in the forest have faded from their green, and look dim from a distance, like an old photo from a long time ago.
At the same time, leaves began to fall off on a large scale, falling all over the forest floor, paving a golden avenue, which looked beautiful and intoxicating.
Pandora would often sit or stand on the top of a hill, looking at the forest expressionlessly for most of the day, wondering what she was thinking.
Richard was not as intoxicated as Pandora. He knew very clearly that all the seemingly beautiful scenery was just some of the most basic physiological changes. For example, changes in temperature and light cause the synthesis of chlorophyll in leaves to be blocked, the content to decrease, and the content of lutein and carotene to increase, resulting in a yellow color. Another example is the increased secretion of plant hormones abscisic acid and ethylene, leading to leaf fall.
For the same reason, the animals in the forest don't know it, but they are also not intoxicated by the autumn colors. In fact, for them, there is no beauty in the autumn scenery. It is more about the survival crisis caused by the decrease in food caused by the drop in temperature.
Autumn has come, can winter be far behind
Winter is a great test for the survival of all forest animals. In this case, both herbivores and carnivores became a little anxious...
Just like that, the date for the beast tide came again.
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That night.
The full moon hangs high in the sky, shining with some gray silver light, as if it has spread a layer of gauze over the earth.
Looking closely, one can see that on top of this layer of tulle, there are densely covered black shadows. They are crazy animals, attacking each other violently, biting and scratching each other's bodies, leaving scars.
Not far from the hill where the black castle is located, a large mountain more than 100 meters tall stands with steep walls and flat peaks. It looks a bit like a black tombstone half buried in the soil. The animals that were fighting on it were the craziest. Most of them were biting wildly with red eyes and fearless of death. Even if they died, they would still bite the enemy's body and not let go.
Suddenly, invisible spiritual power fluctuations spread rapidly inside the mountain, sweeping across most of the forest.
The animals that were already in madness suddenly became more angry, violent, and bloodthirsty, completely losing their minds and becoming flesh and blood puppets dominated by mental fluctuations. Then under certain guidance, with the mountain as the center, they swept around, preparing to bulldoze everything around and eliminate all obstacles.
This guidance is so strong that dozens, hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of animals participate in it, turning into a crazy animal army, roaring and marching in all directions.
The hill where the black castle is located was quiet, but it didn't last long before the sound of "rustling" began to sound from the bottom of the mountain.
In the open space in front of the castle, Pandora glanced at Gregory.
In his human form, Gregory said confidently: "Don't worry, I'll show them how powerful I am right now." As he spoke, his body swelled, and in the blink of an eye, he transformed from a middle-aged strong man into a giant creature more than ten meters long. The dragon spread its wings and flew up with a roar.
Pandora said expressionlessly: "Scared!"
scare? What does this mean
Gregory thought, he found that recently Pandora particularly likes to use such a syllable to express meaning, but it is difficult to understand what the specific meaning is. In most cases, you have to use context, Pandora's mood, and a little bit of metaphysics to figure it out.
After thinking for a long time, Gregory could not guess whether Pandora expressed satisfaction or dissatisfaction this time. In confusion, he flew into the air and clearly saw dense crowds of crazy animals rushing up from the bottom of the hill.
"Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore, let's solve the matter in front of us. I almost screwed it up last time. If I don't do it right this time, I might really get beaten. Alas!" Gregory was a little worried. He thought tiredly, and the next moment he opened his mouth, a ball of flame spurted out.
"call!"
Along with the sound of exhalation, almost solid flames sprayed down, like a huge red sword, cutting hard into the black tide composed of crazy animals at the bottom of the hill. Wherever it went, there were screams, and then they were wiped out. .
When strength forms an absolute crushing force, no matter how large the number is, it becomes meaningless.
Gregory started to kill, started to kill coldly, and then... a boring killing, sighing while killing, and being distracted while killing.
"Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!"
The flames continued to spray down, and the crazy animals were wiped out one after another, but there were always more crazy animals to fill in, one after another.
"It's going to be a busy night again." Gregory yawned and couldn't help but said, spitting out another mouthful of flames, "Huh!"
"Hey, why did I choose to live here in the first place? Wouldn't it be better to change places? Phew!"
"By the way, where have all the other dragons been hiding? I haven't even seen the shadow of another dragon for so long. Otherwise, it wouldn't be so boring to ask a few more dragons to come over and help, chatting and breathing fire at the same time. call!"
"I heard from Pandora that the boy named Richard said that he could use this beast tide to figure out the cause of the beast tide, and then solve it once and for all. I don't know if it is true or not. Phew!"
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In the black castle, in a room on the first floor.
Richard sat cross-legged on the wooden bed and had entered deep meditation. Then his body vibrated and his consciousness quickly rushed out of the body.
The consciousness rose, broke through the roof of the castle from above, and reached mid-air. Richard saw Gregory who was talking to himself and breathing fire.
In the open space in front of the castle below, Pandora stood, staring around with a cold face. When he found a fish that had slipped through the net and rushed to the top of the mountain, he immediately jumped over and punched it down. Then he raised his head and shouted dissatisfiedly at Gregory, telling him that he had made another mistake.
Gregory grunted and began to increase the intensity of the slaughter.
After watching for a moment, Richard shook his head, not forgetting the business, and controlled his consciousness to fly towards the mountain not far away. During the flight, he deliberately controlled his mental power to wrap around his body to prevent him from being exposed to the weird mental power of the mountain. Waves erode consciousness.
Soon, Richard's consciousness reached the surface of the mountain and found that it was a bloody place. The ground seemed to have been watered with blood. One can imagine how many animals had been fighting and bleeding here before.
After glancing at the animal carcasses everywhere, Richard controlled his consciousness to begin to sink, gradually melting into the soil below.